Meditation Tip

The heart longs for adventure, it longs for danger, it longs for the uncharted, the unknown, the insecure. It hankers for the oceanic experience: it wants to dissolve. It wants to disappear into the totality.

Dharma

relaxing meditation music

Spiritual Wisdom

“Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.” -Buddha

Meditation Tip

Desire has not to be destroyed, it has to be purified.
Desire has not to be dropped, it has to be transformed.
Your very being is desire; to be against it is to be against yourself and to be against all.

Osho

Meditation Thought

There’s nothing you’re supposed to do with this moment, with this day, with your life. It’s entirely dependent on what matters to you. Focus on that today. Put your heart where it wants to go, and let your meaning evolve through intention and actions.

TinyBuddha

The Zen Mind

This is real zen. It is a journey across Japan from the small zen centers of Tokyo to the enormous zen monasteries of remote mountains. It is a look inot the very private world of the zen mind - the mind searching for enlightenment. The superb Shakuhachi flute is by Christopher Yohmei.

Spiritual Wisdom

For penetrating to the depths of one's own true self nature, and for attaining a vitality valid on all occasions, nothing can surpass meditation in the midst of activity.

Hakuin

Learning to Drive: Why We Need a Relationship with “Something Infinite”

“The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life.” ~ Carl Jung

http://globalmindshift.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/learning-to-drive-why-we-need-a-relationship-with-something-infinite/

Meditation Tip

“Don’t seek the awareness because by doing so it escapes from you even further. The awareness is simple and natural life, is the spirit of a child playing and learning, it’s the thought that springs from the feeling that you try drinking a sip of cool water.”

Meditation Thought

It's been a battle among humans, for a very long time, trying to get this picture of God into a place that is pleasing for them. And the debate about "Is it evolution? Is it creation? Is it God-inspired, or is it scientifically inspired…?" And we say, why does it have to be one or the other? Why can't everything that is wrapped up in science and vibration be the true essence of that which you call God? It is all one and the same.

--- Abraham

Is meditation about making your mind go blank?

One of the most common misconceptions about meditation is that it’s about making your mind go blank. I don’t know where this “meme” originated (a “meme” is a virus-like idea which inhabits or even “infects” our minds) but it’s pervasive and long-lasting. I think it may take at least another generation or two of spiritual practice before that notion goes to the scrapheap of ideas that it deserves to rest in.

This mistaken idea is even found in some meditation sites that rank highly in Google, which is a little worrying.

Certainly, we want in meditation to reduce the amount of thinking that goes on. Most of us are plagued with thoughts that arise seemingly without cause. It’s rare to experience more than a few moments without some thought arising. And although this is “normal” (i.e. very common) it’s not healthy. Many of the thoughts that arise in the mind are supportive of emotions of anxiety, ill will, neurotic craving, and self-doubt. So that’s why we want to reduce the amount of thinking we do — to have a rest from this near-relentless onslaught of thoughts.

We can even experience times in meditation when no thoughts arise at all.

Hey, you may be thinking, hasn’t he just contradicted himself? Well, no. Let me explain.

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Spiritual Wisdom

Imagine a powerful searchlight where the reflector and the glass lenses have gotten all dirty, black and greasy. The searchlight would be much less effective. If the reflectors and the glass are however cleaned, the searchlight would function splendidly! Now think of the "spiritual life" as a process of cleansing the grime off your own effulgence.

Bharat Wakhlu

Spirituality, Meditation & Business

Business is a human activity and a means to an end, while sprituality and meditation are the vehicle to take you to the sole purpose of our existence, i.e Self realization, and help to understand one's true potential. A better understanding of our being and our True Self, helps gain an equlibrium or equinanimity and peace, which helps to conduct any human activity ( business including ) perfectly and with ease without any internal strife or tension, from a higher level of consciousness. With a Spirituality in life and meditation practice helps one, the Doer ( You) and the Activity ( here Business) it helps them to coalesce in one whole like milk and water, insepreable, yet the Doer does not get attached to the activity ( the Business), even though he is the acitivity incarnate, for the duration he spends time in the activity. The purpose is to stay connected to the perpetual inner stream of Universal Consciousness undeterred by the ups and downs of our daily life activities.

Deb Ranjan Bhattacharya

Meditation Thought

Before the "Chief Referee" blows his whistle, your garden of "being more" has to contain more roses than those in your garden of "having more". In this very awareness rests the key to establish a bridge to towards global peace.

Ray Bhowmik

Online Meditation

Dear friends!

I've just completed some web pages for online meditation. The idea is to show you simple methods, which allow you to meditate without too much formalism, and for whatever reason you do it.

If you are new to meditation, go to Spiritual Living and Meditation, where you will find both an introduction as well as an overview of different approaches.

If you want to do some meditation right away, go to the Meditation Garden.

The pages are still in the "beta" stage - so feedback, suggestions and comments are most welcome.

Thank you!

Dieter

Deepak Chopra's Introduction to Meditation

Spiritual Wisdom

The relation you have to yourself is the first and most important step to freedom. It is when you are centered in yourself that you really can give to others without expectations.

Dharma

Meditation Tip

There is a voice in the Universe urging us to remember our purpose for being on this great Earth. This is the voice of inspiration, which is within each and every one of us.

Wayne Dyer

Meditation Thought

Stopping unnecessary mental doing allows the natural state to arise.
Deep stillness always rests under an agitated mind.

Jac O'Keeffe

“Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life… Thus, everyone's task is as unique as is his specific opportunity to implement it.”

The above quote is from Viktor Frankl.   

So my question is:

What are YOU here to do? What's your specific vocation or mission in life? We all have one. What's yours?

Clear? Write it down! Live it!

Stuck? Write down the question: “What is my specific mission in life?” Then simply write down “My specific mission in life is to …” and let it flow. Don't censor yourself or need it to be “right.” Just write.

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